The Arizona sentinel., 1887-03-05
LOCAL NOTES.

l InlS SSunl-VrOilC ldlis SHillAnS. ! Fill every nook and corner of your ground with fruit trees. It will pay. The Board of Supervi ors will convene il regular session next Monday,
 Congress adjourned yesterday. An extr' session is among the probabilities.
 The steamer departed this week with | heavy cargo of goods for up-river ports.
 Walter Miller, the merchant of Norton Landing, came down to the city Thursday
 Plant shade trees a,ong the sidewalks The pepper tree is a favOrite for shade.
 A ear load of people passed through Yu rna Tuesday on their way home from Cali fornia.
 Col. Geo H. Daily, Deputy Collector 0 Customs at this port, visited Tucson las Saturday.
 Quite number of orange and lemon .ree' are being planted in the gardens around town.
 Mir. and Mrs. Taylor arrived from Mo hawk Thursday. Mir. Taylor is one of ou most enterprising citizens,
 Dr. Geo. H. McGee, of Texas Hill, start East soon to place his celebrated catarri eInely hefore the people.
 Mir J. W. Darlington, president of the Mohawk Canal Company, pad visit tc Mohawk valley this week.
 Mir. Wm. Goodrich, one of the extensive and owners of the Antelope valley, spen. few daysiu the city this week.
 Judge Levy and Mr. A. Frank, arrived from Los Angeles with their families last Sunday.
 Our thanks are due to Mr. John Dcd g paymaster of the Mohawk Canal Company for favors extended to us during our lat visit to Mohawk.
 We had visit this week from Mir. J. R. Cottle, of Riverside, who is out to take | look at Gila valley lands.
 The District Court, under the new law, will meet in Yuma on the fourth Mondays of March and September.
 There is some laad vacant yet down this way, but il is going "liae hot cakes," ano before long i4Id will be land. A few shade, ornamental and fruit trees adds immensely to the attractiveness of . place. The cost to plant and care for i: small.
 Mir. John Hart's family arrived iron Tucson Thursday His household goods shipped five days before have not arrived get.
 The cottonwood trees are all leaved out and mark the courses of the Colorado anr G!la by long and tOrtuOus lines of dari greer.
 Mir. ?. L. Ewing. bookkeeper for Mr John Gaudoifo at his branch store on Mai street, has go.e to Mohawk to look afte his land interests. Harry Neghr and Pabl Figaerora succeed him in the store.
 Star.-Fraak Laumcister's smiling coun tenance is once more noticed iu Tucson Frank is LII old-timer Everybody know him fer h;s smiling good nature, and we ar pleased to state that his avordupois is O the increase. May his shadow never Grov less.
 l The outlook for the various fertile valley along the Gila is most encouraging. Wa l ter developments are being pushed wit vigor, new canal enterprises are being iH l sueurated, and new settlements made dali, More land hunters are now in this count 2 than has ever before been known. This office acknowledges T pleasant visi 8 this week from Mir. Kimball, member of tn , California S,ate Board of Horticulture. H spent several days in this vicinity, examir ing quaIity of soil, etc. He particularl noted ;he ine, healthy appearance of tn orange and lemon trees, and the clear, brigl appearance of the oranges and lemons, ire s from snus.
 The 10th inst. is the day set for the ar journment of the territorial legislature. l few days more our legislators and th efficient Engrossing and Enrolling clerk ( n the Council, will be home again, consciou of having faithfaily performed their seyeri duties, and in this consciousness we belieS ! She people of tle couusy will give the $ hearty endorsement.
 The excursiJaists on the two excursio ' trains that passed through Yuma the fir. of the week noted with many expressions admiration the balmy softness O: the air : this place, anl many wondered whetht i the air of Sout ern Cal fo.nit was really { ' ds!ightful as this. We opiue that not unt their return will they find more charmir
 atmosphere than they experienced and
 appre,i-tiA admired here. @ sir. Il. T. Rice, Of Rice's Agricultura , Engine. boiler, and plow works, San Fra
 cisco, called upon Us this week. He
 down here taking look at this section al
 investigating, somewhat. its resources al st h, chances for investment. He is high
 pleased with what Ae has seen and expre:
 ed to Us his convictions that ere long lar
 amount of capital would be invested in
 development of this portion of the territol af.nl ara in. n